Our guide to film series and special screenings. All our movie reviews are at nytimes.com/reviews/movies.

HEATHCLIFF, IT’S ME: ADAPTING ‘WUTHERING HEIGHTS’ at the Film Society of Lincoln Center (Feb. 24-27). Just because a movie is adapted from one of the most revisited works in English literature doesn’t mean that its director can’t find a fresh angle, as these five auteurist takes on Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel demonstrate. The approaches differ not only in structure — screenwriters generally ignore the book’s second half, as Luis Buñuel’s 1953 film (Friday and Sunday) does — but also in tone. For romantic delirium, none can match William Wyler’s ethereal 1939 Hollywood version (Sunday and Monday), starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. But Jacques Rivette’s 1985 reworking (Friday) has a tinge of the playfulness of his “Céline and Julie Go Boating.” Yoshishige Yoshida’s 1988 adaptation (Saturday) substitutes cloudy Japanese mountains for cloudy English moors, while Andrea Arnold’s 2011 interpretation (Saturday and Monday), the first with a black Heathcliff, favors a claustrophobic, hand-held shooting style.212-875-5601, filmlinc.org

JORDAN PEELE: THE ART OF THE SOCIAL THRILLER at BAM Rose Cinemas (through March 1). Mr. Peele (“Key & Peele”) makes his feature directorial debut with “Get Out,” opening this week. To mark the occasion, he compiled this series of horror and suspense films, which slyly address issues of race, class, gender and family life. “Candyman” (Friday) stars Virginia Madsen as a researcher whose investigation of an urban legend takes her to a since-demolished section of the Cabrini-Green housing project in Chicago, where the movie was shot. Today, the locations exert more of a ghostly pull than the supernatural elements. In Joe Dante’s “The ’Burbs” (Wednesday), Tom Hanks, still in his comedy phase, is foremost among a group of friends who suspect that their new neighbors are murderers. Carrie Fisher, who died in December, plays the Hanks character’s wife.718-636-4100, bam.org

‘PELLE THE CONQUEROR’ at Film Forum (through March 2). Spruced up for its 30th anniversary, this artfully composed (if oppressively maudlin) immigrant saga by Bille August follows a father (Max von Sydow) and his young son (Pelle Hvenegaard) after they arrive in Denmark from Sweden looking for work, for which the father, struggling in vain to project dignity, isn’t in great condition. The movie won the Palme d’Or at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and later received an Oscar for best foreign-language film. “Mr. August brings a cool 20th-century sensibility to what is, at heart, a piece of passionate 19th-century fiction,” the critic Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times when it played at the New York Film Festival in 1988.212-727-8110, filmforum.org